Predictably he avoided the moral questions at hand. He did not champion the need for equality and fairness in America, nor did he embrace the Brown decision or praise the Little Rock Nine as heroes every bit as courageous as the men he had led into battle. He had no interest in engaging the history of race relations in America. He never mentioned Orval Faubus; he did not refer to the Southern Manifesto; he did not quote any of the prolonged declarations in favor of racial segregation made that summer in the U.S. Senate by leading statesmen of the age. In fact he went out of his way to praise
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